Garment accessory



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GARMENT ACCESSORY Filed- Jan. 19, 1949 IN V EN TOR. MARY RoUssos UNITED STATE 'portion of the garment.

Patented Sept. 25, 1951 s- PATENT- OFFICE j GARMENT ACCESSORY Mary Roussos, Forest Hills, N. Y. Application January 19, 1949, Serial No. 71,699

Thisinvention relates to new and useful improvements in an article of manufacture which can be worn as a jabotor a bustle with womens and misses apparel. 1

More particularly, the aim of the invention is to provide a novel and valuable article of feminine outerwear incorporating a blouse portion. and a skirt portion, with a certain construction at the neck of said blouse portion and preferably also with an additional construction at the waist Such constructions are readily variably locatable decorative additions for on one selected occasion providing the equivalent of ajabot and for on another selected occasion providing the equivalent of a bustle and at the same time a belt for drawing the material of the garment in position around the waist of the wearer.

For further comprehension of the invention, and ofthe objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig- 1 front elevation shows a now favored embodiment of the invention incorporating a basic garment pursuant to the invention and including a skirt portion which is a true shirt consistent with current fashion; such dress being shown arranged as it would be adjusted on the body of a wearer and with the said decorative addition combined with said dress to display the salient decorative portion of said addition as a jabot.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation, showing this combination pursuant to the invention, that is, looking-at the back of the combination of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is also a rear elevation of Fig. 1, showing thecombination of the invention in another arrangement, that is, with the same basic dress as in Figs-1 and 2 here illustratively shown, but now with said salient decorative portion of said addition arranged to constitute a bustle.

Fig. 4 is an elevational View, showing the combination of Fig. 3 as seen at the front of the garment.

Fig. 5 is, on a scale enlarged over that of Figs. 1 and 3, a perspective view showing said decorative addition in a now favored form thereof.

Fig. 6 is a similar view, showing a length of ribbon or the like which may be provided in supplementation of a similar elongate flexible tie element forming part of said addition.

' 1 Claim. (o1.2 91) The new article of manufacture, according to thepresent invention, is to be worn with a basic dress having a blouse portion 10 made up of a suitable number of pieces or sections of a suitable sheet material suitably joined together as by seamings including a central front'seam H and a central back seam l2; and also a four-gored skirt, portion l 4, the four gores of which are suitably joined as by seamings including a central front seam l5 and a central back seam l6. The said blouse and skirt portions l0 and [4 are desirably suitably permanently attached all around thewaist of the garment as indicatedat l1.

Desirably also, to obtain a gatherable or stretch-effected fullness at said waist, suitable provisions are made. Thus fullness may be provided by the manner of cutting of the upper end portions of said skirt gores and/or by insertion of asection or piece of laterally and/0r longitudinally stretchable material at an appropriatelocation, and, as far as the waist portion In is concerned (while the latter may be given a predetermined shape by the addition of a plurality of darts therein as indicated at l8, l8) by cutting on the bias, and in a way to insure stretchability thereof in the desired directions, the pieces or sections ofsheet material componental of the waist portion I0; thereby to make the garment a pull-over one. The just. above mentioned elastic insertion, in one embodiment thereof which is at once useful for the purpose stated and which at the same time may constitute an inbuilt decorative addition to the garment, is indicated at i9; and it will be noted that the same is illustratively shaped to be substantially like a quadrantal segment of an annulus, and herein shown as placed so as to curvilinearly downwardly and outwardly extend from about the front center of the waist down across the front of a hip to a side seam of the skirt portion l4. p

The blouse portion in is illustrated, by way of example, as provided with dolman sleeves; both these sleeves fully shown only when Fig. 3 is taken in connection with Fig. 1.

The rear blouse seam [2 at its upper end is sufficiently below the top of the blouse portion of the garment for expansion of the top of said portion to allow the head of the person donning the garment to pass upwardly through the neck opening, and the collar structure 28, which may be of the design shown or of other selected design, is of such circumferential expanse that it is gatherable about the neck of the wearer.

Suitably spaced around said neck structure 20 3 are openings 2|, such as eyeletted apertures, buttonhole-finished holes, slots, slits or the like to a suitable total; about six of these openings being indicated in the drawings.

With special reference now to Figs. 5 and 6, and first to the former, the new decorative addition 22 of the present invention, comprises a salient decorative portion 23, which, according to present preferences, is comprised of a plurality of plies of textile material; which plies may be separate sheet elements suitably edge-finished if desired and/or variously ornamented or embellished, or said plies may be subdivisions of a single or several sheet elements of the selected textile material, with this or these sheets edgefinished if desired and/or variously ornamented or embellished, and folded :on itself or themselves.

Also, according to present preferences, each of the largest of said plies, if one be larger than another or others, is about 16" long and about 1'1" wide; the stack of said plies are gathered or =sh ir-red across the width of the unit 23, thereby to reduce the widthof said unit to about 4"; and the .line of gathering or shirring is spaced about 1 /2 from a widthwise line across said u n'itmidway between its-ends, so that one main end portion 24 of said unit may fall to drape over the other main end portion 25 thereof and then to-have the bottom ofthe portion 24 lie above the bottomof the portion 25.

- Asby a suitable stitching, there is secured to said unit a ribbon 26 or the like, along a mid- ;oortion length of such ribbon, and along or adjacent to said line of gathering or shirringof the unit 23. This ribbon or the like, .it. has been found, apparently is of optimum lengthwhen measuring about 40" from end to YSaid ribbon constitutes the elongate tie element hereinabove referredto as forming part of the decorative addition 22.

Referring to Fig. 6, an auxiliary ribbon 21, this constituting thesupplementary elongate tie elementalso above referred to, is .in this view illu'stratedsby itself. Said ribbon 2'! or the like is desirably also ab0ut40" long.

For employing the unit :23 as a jabot, as in Figs. .1 and .2, and. at the same time to properly smartly reform the garments neck structure 20, starting from the front of the garment one of the end portions of the ribbon 26 is threaded weaving-wise through three of the openings 2| and the-other end portion of said ribbon is similarly threaded through the other three of said openings, With the unit 23 arranged as in Fig. 1, and the ribbon 26 drawn up to gather to the desired extent the neck structure 20, the free ends-of the ribbon 26 are tied into a bow as shown at 28 in Fig. 2. Now, the auxiliary ribbon 21 may be arranged around the waist of the garment, drawn snugly around the waist, and tied into a bow; with this bow, as shown at 29 in Fig. 2 also at the back of the garment, or, if desired, at the front thereof, or at a side thereof, or otherwise as taste of the moment may dictate. v

For employing the unit 23 as a bustle, and at the same time to properly draw in the waist portion of the garment, all that is required is to arrange the unit 23 as in Fig. 3, and, with the ribbon 26 drawn comfortably tautly around the waist, to tie the free ends of said ribbon into a bow. with this bow located, for instance as at 30 in Fig. 4. In this ensemble, and 'for gathering in the neck structure 20, the ribbon 21 may be threaded through the openings 2|, drawn up sufiiciently to establish the desired formation at said neck structure, and then tied into a bow 3| at the front of the garment as shown in 'Fig. 4.

By the term skirt portion is meant either a true skirt, that is, one to constitute a full outer covering for the nether parts of the body down to the desired level above the shoe tops. -or'merely an addendum to the blouse portion, .such an addendum, for instance, as the peplum, included in a bodice garment While I have illustrated described the .;preferred embodiment oflmy invention, it is to :be :understood that:1 :do not limit myselfto the precise construction .herein disclosed and the right .is reserved to all changes and modifications coming Within the ;scope,of the invention as defined in 'the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent A new article of manufacture to be worn as a jabotor a 'bustle, ;compr i s-ing an elongated narrowr-ibbon adapted to be engaged about the wearers body "by :having. its :ends "tied together, a decorative portion of cloth material of uniform width and length, said decorative portion being of a width substantially greater than the width of said ribbonbut of .a length substantially less than the length of said ribbon, said decorative portion being shirred parallel to its length and extended-"across the center portion of :said ribbon with .its width parallel to the length of said ribbon, and a line oftrstitc'hes running parallel to the length of the ribbon; securing sai'dzdecorative portion to. 'saidribbon.

MARY ROUSSOS.

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